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In our picture of formation of solar-type stars, disks and binarity are ubiquituous consequences of the collapse of rotating protostellar cores. Still, some of the most important unanswered questions in our understanding of low-mass star formation is exactly when and how circumstellar disks and binaries form, how they evolve during the earliest stages, including how the disks channel material onto the central star, and what their properties are in relation to their parental environment. The time is however ripe to make significant progress on these questions utilizing new observational facilities (including ALMA) as well as simulations covering multitudes of scales of star forming regions. In this talk I will aim to synergize what we have learned from such observations and simulations so-far - and discuss how we can make progress by bridging the gap between them.
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